October 2020
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Hurricane Delta has now emerged from the Yucatan Peninsula and is moving back over open water in the Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to slowly strengthen for a while to a major hurricane again before weakening as it moves over colder water near the coast, which is caused by stirring up the water due…
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For those of you who are in Georgia, you might be interested in this new web site recently introduced by the Georgia Climate Project. You can see it at https://www.georgiaclimateproject.org/portal/. This portal is intended to provide resources to address how climate change is affecting different sectors of Georgia’s economy and environment. The first theme is…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the Southeast covering September 2020 is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can read it at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportSeptember2020.pdf.
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The latest outlook from the National Hurricane Center is that Hurricane Delta, now a category 4 storm, is continuing pretty much as expected towards the NW and should make its initial landfall on the northern tip of the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico near Cancun on Wednesday. It will then continue to move through the Gulf…
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In this blog we often talk about the impacts of El Nino and La Nina about the local climate. But the combination of the two, called ENSO for El Nino Southern Oscillation, also affects the climate across many other parts of the world, causing floods in some places and droughts in others. This article from…
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The monthly climate summary for September 2020 for North Carolina is now available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=325&h=5666e5c1.
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Short Survey on Flash Drought NIDIS is partnering with the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) on a short survey to better understand how flash drought is perceived by drought managers and decision makers as well as within the research community. In addition, this survey will explore perspectives on responding to and managing flash drought, including…